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Rarely, but yes. Overall Google was notorious for demanding degrees from top universities.
by inerte 8y ago
Rarely, but yes. Overall Google was notorious for demanding degrees from top universities.
- godelmachine 8y agoThat's informative. Thanks! I had read an article where they elaborated how getting into Google is a lot more difficult than getting into Harvard.
- FrojoS 8y agoIts not. There rejection rate is higher, though. Still, a person who gets into Harvard is more likely to also get into Google than vice versa. Google gets more applications per open position, so they also have to reject more. Lots of people think "Why not give it a shot and apply at Google." Very few think the same about Harvard. Also, I would say it takes more effort to apply to a university. They will require essays, SAT/GRE and letters of recommendations for a valid application.
- godelmachine 8y agoMakes sense.
- zinclozenge 8y agoIt also probably costs money to apply to Harvard.
- psalminen 8y agoI thought early Google famously cared about the SAT/GRE scores of applicants regardless of age?[0] [0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/job-hunting-dig-up-those-old-sat-scores-1393374186 https://www.wsj.com/articles/job-hunting-dig-up-those-old-sa...
- nostrademons 8y agoI applied to Harvard as a "why not give it a shot?" It involved ticking an additional box on the Common Application and paying an additional $25 or so. I needed the essays, letters of recommendations, SAT, etc. anyway, to apply to other schools. Harvard had no additional requirements besides them. (Amherst and Dartmouth, however, required additional essays. I ended up giving up on the Dartmouth supplement because I couldn't be arsed to finish it, then have them nag me for another 2 months about my uncompleted application before I finally told them that no, I didn't actually want to apply.)
- mikestew 8y agoGoogle has twice come to me for interviews. I can't say the same about Harvard.
- throwaway0255 8y agoHow true is this today?
- throwawaymath 8y agoNot really true at all. Having no degree at all may present an obstacle in entering the interview process if you don't have strong experience to make up for it. But once you've entered the process as a candidate, the type or lack of degree will have absolutely no bearing on whether or not you're given an offer. It may be used past the decision phase when the hiring committee is deciding how to level you, but if so that will only be meaningful if they're slotting you for the first two levels or so. Everything becomes easier with a degree, doubly so with a degree from a top university. But they only use that as a factor in deciding who to interview; all they care about when deciding who to hire is interview performance. Someone without a degree should be optimizing their search by convincing hiring managers or employees to refer them into the process directly, thereby short circuiting the recruiters.
- godelmachine 8y agoMaybe things are changing these days. How necessary is a Masters in Computer Science degree?
- throwaway0255 8y agoEveryone I've talked to in the industry views people with a Masters much less favorably than people with a Bachelors or PhD. And from experience I can say there is a shockingly high number of people with Masters in Comp Sci churning through the hiring pool who can't write a single line of code or even valid HTML. I don't know why this is, but I think a Masters is getting a negative reputation to the point that you might consider not listing it on your resume at all in certain cases.
- godelmachine 8y agoThat's really shocking for me to know that a Master's degree is frowned upon these days. However, since its one of my life's dream to get a MS in CS from US, I will do it.